Canonical Status of Event Art

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This article or section is highly speculative in nature due to a lack of information. Take it with a grain of salt.

This article serves as a way to present an alternative theory regarding the canon status of the three "event arts" on the Doughbyte website: reflection, something through nothing, and beauty in everything. This page will run through each image individually, as well as provide an introduction. The hope is that by making this, a new light can be shone on a long-accepted belief that these images are not canon to the story at all (also, it's just nice to have all this logged in an easy-to-access space). There will be some spoilers for the most recent records as of the time of writing this however, so if you haven't read through all the story yet it would be best if you did that first and then came back here if you so chose.

Introduction

For a long time, it has been commonly accepted that these event arts are not canon to the story of Doughbyte. After all, there was never any reason to believe otherwise; the scenarios presented within them seemed impossible. A Llokin in some abstract dream world? A Nyxite, Vollux, Llokin, Chevrin, and Eykwyrm all in the same room, looking as though they're posing for a photograph? There was just no way this could happen -- until Chapter XVII of the story came out, and with it, the record from a distance. This single record provided new insight on many things in the story, but the most important for the purposes of this article is the following: sabre -- the being who translates all of the records into English -- created the universe and every iteration within it, effectively making them god; free to do as they please with their creation. This makes the scenarios in those images far less outlandish and one can easily imagine them as being totally possible.

Besides that, there are a couple other noteworthy tidbits of info:

• Within the first two event arts, there is the following symbol:

  

  • Though never directly mentioned as such, this symbol has a strong correlation with sabre, being present all throughout the website, including a version on the homepage which has a set of pupils that follow your mouse cursor around.
• Each image page on the site has a marker in the corner that is used in various forms to mark whether an image is to be considered canon. Images with a marker are canon, images without one are not.
  • The event arts each have one such symbol, and it happens to be the same one shown above, in addition to the background being white instead of the black seen with every other image. The common assumption is that this is used solely to indicate that these images denote a special event and nothing else, but if you note the specific imagery that is present in each of them, it would seem as though this may not actually be the case.

With that introduction out of the way, we can now go through the images themselves.

reflection

Released in mid-2021 as part of a thank you to the community, reflection is the least likely image here to be fully canon due to its age and some other factors, notably there are multiple elements that are more related to Breadcrumbs' previous ARG than they are to Doughbyte (though, at the time this image was released it is not entirely out of the question that these two universes were connected in some way). Nevertheless, the rest of the image has some details that can be observed here. The most obvious thing to point out is the presence of the symbol mentioned before, with its "eyes" having shapes resembling a face of joy, no doubt due to the presence of a Llokin right underneath it. Besides that, the background resembles other depictions of the "hyperverse" in its colouration. The surroundings resemble some kind of digital landscape, possibly indicating that this red/green Llokin has been placed into a simulation by sabre, or perhaps this could even be the creation of 265404.

something through nothing

Released in early 2022 to celebrate Doughbyte's 1-year anniversary, something through nothing depicts every major Doughbyte species (minus an Osmite) charging forwards in a heroic manner, with sabre's symbol in the background in the middle of a swirly red pattern. With the knowledge obtained in from a distance, this could take place within sabre's own domain and the characters within could be recreations of them that sabre summoned themselves for some entertainment, likely to commemorate the success of their ongoing experiment (the universe). Nothing in this image appears to contradict currently established lore, and it seems a likely candidate to indeed be canon.

beauty in everything

Released in early 2023 to celebrate Doughbyte's 2-year anniversary, beauty in everything is the final event image as of writing this, and it is probably the most important one to analyze. In the foreground, you see an Osmite, standing in front of a background which strongly resembles the swirly red pattern seen in the previous image. Floating in its hands is a familiar yet different symbol, looking very similar to the one that's been so highly prevalent everywhere else, yet distinctly different with its own traits. This Osmite is believed to be EMBER, the sole survivor of his kind, taken out of 768220 by sabre out of pity and permitted to explore the universe, as per from a distance. EMBER is said to have also been provided with a "new body, so he could explore the worlds all on his own", and from this piece of dialogue comes a very interesting possibility: the symbol that's been mentioned so many times in this article is sabre, or at least a form they choose to take, and the similar-looking symbol held by EMBER is the body sabre provided to him, which EMBER is presumably seeing for the first time in the image. This image seems very likely to be canon, and has super interesting implications if so.

Conclusion

And so ends this long analysis of these images. It took much longer to write than expected, and perhaps all this effort was unnecessary for something which isn't that important, but hopefully it's at least somewhat interesting to read, and maybe it'll lead some people to ponder these words a little bit. Or maybe it won't, who knows. In either case, it's fun to think about, and maybe there'll be more articles like this in the future (doubtful). Thanks for reading!